Microsoft is taking the fight to Amazon, cutting Azure cloud storage transaction prices by 90 per cent.
A statement on Microsoft's Windows Azure team blog says: "We heard you loud and clear that you want cheaper transaction costs for Windows Azure Blobs, Tables, Queues, and Drives. We are therefore very pleased today to slash …

Has any of this been confirmed? Going to try out Azure, but I haven't seen any other reports (with official source) suggesting Azure announced on Wednesday will even offer SSD as a 'feature' of the Azure cloud let alone OCZ supplying the Azure cloud with SSDs.

Try it out on Azure. Run a UnixBench and you'll see it's running SSDs equivalent block storage. And OCZ might've had issues with Sandforce controllers in the past, but they've always backed it up with a good warranty (at least where I'm at, never had a problem with same-day RMA and I've had 4 drives over the years).

The Vertex 4 is also backed by a 5 year warranty and unlike the Intel 520 which are starting to have problems due to the Sandforce controllers, it uses their own tech.

Their enterprise drives offer much more value-performance than Fusion IO.